Comments on: Converge South, Day 2, morning

By: dave

dave — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:13:28 +0000

Pete, Even though they have the firmware upgrades there is a lot of supply chain between the consumer and them. I bought a camera long after that announcement and it had the old firmware. And, eventually they will crack this anyway. The arms race never ends.

By: dave

dave — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:31:25 +0000

PJ, that wasn’t about you. There was a guy in the videoblog session who said something to the effect of “I have lizards in my backyard too, why do I need to watch them on the internet.” I used that for my example of the thing I did to break my creative freeze. After the Hacking video, it took me a month to find something else to do.

As for stopping whining and getting to work, there should be a socks knocker offer up by this weekend.

By: PJ Cabrera

PJ Cabrera — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:04:34 +0000

And don’t sweat the small stuff. I don’t care about how the credits look. That’s non-content. And I don’t care about rough edit cuts, or camera whoops moments. This is citizen media. That makes it more memorable. (the surgical-precision-professional-TV-network content is so terribly unexciting precisely for this reason)

Now go shoot stuff and stop whining!

By: PJ Cabrera

PJ Cabrera — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:00:09 +0000

> Last link on this subject, I swear: here is the infamous lizard
> video I mentioned and at least one person derided sight unseen as
> uninteresting. Is it really uninteresting? I report lizards, you
> decide!

Dude! I was only teasing, pulling your leg about the lizard video! I did not meant to imply the whole world would find the lizard video uninteresting. But to **me**, lizards on the patio is not a big deal. I mean, you do know I have lizards roaming my property too, right?

Now, show me something I don’t see every day, and show it in a fresh, unique way, not that formulaic-network-crap style, and I’m riveted.

By: Pete Prodoehl

Pete Prodoehl — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:14:46 +0000

“…unless/until they change the firmware to make it stop working…”

Already done. If you get a 3.62 it will not be recognized as a USB Mass Storage device like the older 3.4 firmware models are… Currently the 3.62 cameras require actual hardware hacking which may fry the camera.

By: dave

dave — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:59:24 +0000

Ben, you’d be surprised. 3/4 of that editing time was trying to get closing titles I could live with. The crappy ones I have were the best attempt I had, and I finally got sick of them and just went with it.

It does take time, but iMovie is fairly simple and I imagine other platforms have equivalent tools at equivalent levels. I’d say for the first thing – do a 30 second or less one so the editing is simple and you get to take first steps on a limited scale. It reduces the probability of bogging down and just deciding to forget the whole deal.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:31:57 +0000

Like I pointed out during the session… currently vlogging includes edit time (I’m not including your lizards video *laugh*). That means a lot more work for a little bit of product time.

Not a bad thing, and if you’re dynamic enough, then you can pull off a straight 1-shoot everything goes type vlog. But I think it’d be a lot easier if editing didn’t take so long. Maybe this is a good chance for the open-source community to jump in.

By: EdCone.com

EdCone.com — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:18:35 +0000

Evil Genius at work